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Excerpt: ...he could not reach him. Presently the faint, difficult sound ceased, began again, stopped, and was heard no more. A great silence seemed to rush in on the extinction of that small sound. It stooped down and enveloped Hugh in it. Everything was very calm, very still. The boat kept turning slowly round and round, the only thing that moved. The sunlight quivered on the wet, upturned keel. Already it was drying in patches. Hugh watched it. The cold was sapping his powers as if he were bleeding. "I could have built a boat in the time Loftus takes to fetch one," he said to himself, and he looked round him. No sign of Doll. He was alone in the world. The cold was gaining on him slowly, surely. Why had he on such heavy gloves, which made him fumble so clumsily. He looked at his bare cut hands, and realized that their grip was leaving them. He felt that he was in measurable distance of losing his hold. Suddenly a remembrance flashed across him of the sinister face of the water as it had first looked up at him through the trees. Now he understood. This was the appointed place for him to die. Hugh tightened his hold with his right hand, for his left was paralyzed. "I will not," he said. "Nothing shall induce me. I will live and marry Rachel." The cold advanced suddenly on him, as at the point of the bayonet. "Why not die?" said another voice. "Will it be easier in three months' time than it is now? Will it ever be so easy again? See how near death is to life, a wheel within a wheel, two rings linked together. A touch, and you pass from one to the other." Hugh looked wildly round him. The sun lay warm upon the tree-tops. It could not be that he was going to die here and now; here in the living sunshine, with the quiet, friendly faces of the hills all around him. He strengthened his numb hold fiercely, all but lost it, regained it. Cramp, long held at bay, overcame him. And the boat kept turning in the twilight. He reached the end of his strength, and held on...
| ISBN-13 | 9781443212182 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1443212180 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $20.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 212 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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